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- the present invention relates to an interference color display and an optical interference modulator. More particularly, the present invention relates to an interference color display and an optical interference modulator with a single air gap and color filtering film design.
- LCD liquid crystal display
- OLED organic light-emitting device
- PDP plasma display panel
- LCD liquid crystal panel
- drawbacks including narrow visual angle, moderate response time, need for a color filter for full coloration, and need for a polarizer leading to a poor optical utilization of light source and energy wastage by a back light module.
- the optical interference panel comprises an array of optical interference modulators.
- Each optical interference modulator includes a transparent electrode, a reflective electrode and a support layer for supporting the reflective electrode. Through the support of the support layer, an air gap with a specified thickness is formed between the reflective electrode and the transparent electrode. Light entering from the transparent electrode of the optical interference modulator passes through the air gap and impinges upon the second electrode. Light impinging the second electrode is reflected back to emerge from the modulator through the transparent electrode. Because light passing through air gap of different thickness may result in different degree of optical interference, different colors are produced. For example, red light, green light and blue light can be produced in this way.
- the design of the reflective electrode inside the optical interference modulator must integrate with a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) so that the optical interference modulator can switch between an “on” or an “off” state to illuminate or darken a spot on the panel.
- MEMS micro-electromechanical system
- optical interference modulators inside the optical interference display need no additional coloring filter or polarizer for producing a suitable color point and hence able to save some production cost.
- each optical interference modulator consumes very little electric power, quick to respond to electrical signals and operates in a bi-stable state. Therefore, the optical interference display is suitable for low power consumption products including most portable device such as mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), electronic book (e-book) and so on.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view of a conventional optical interference color display structure.
- the optical interference color display 100 mainly comprises a transparent substrate 110 , a patterned support layer 120 , a plurality of first electrodes 130 , a plurality of optical films 140 and a plurality of second electrodes 150 .
- the transparent substrate 110 is a glass substrate or a substrate made from a transparent material.
- the patterned support layer 120 is positioned on the transparent substrate 110 for supporting the edges of the second electrodes 150 .
- the first electrodes 130 are also positioned on the transparent substrate 110 .
- the first electrodes 130 are transparent electrodes fabricated using a material including indium-tin-oxide (ITO).
- ITO indium-tin-oxide
- the optical film 140 is positioned on the first electrodes 130 .
- the optical film 140 is a composite stack having a multiple of alternately positioned high dielectric constant films and low dielectric constant films.
- the second electrodes 150 are positioned over the first electrodes 130 . Through the support of the patterned support layer 120 , the second electrodes 150 are positioned over the first electrodes 130 .
- the second electrodes 150 are typically fabricated using a highly reflective metallic material.
- a conventional optical interference color panel comprises a plurality of optical interference modulators each having a different air gap thickness. As shown in FIG. 1, the air gap between the second electrode 150 and the first electrode 130 is different for different optical interference modulators. To produce color light, the optical interference modulators are designed to have three different air gap separations d 1 , d 2 and d 3 .
- the optical interference modulator with an air gap separation of d 1 emits red light
- the optical interference modulator with an air gap separation of d 2 emits blue light
- the optical interference modulator with an air gap separation of d 3 emits green light.
- the light needs to pass through different air gap thickness d 1 , d 2 , d 3 before arriving at the respective second electrodes 150 . Thereafter, the light emerges from the transparent substrate 1100 after reflecting back by the second electrodes 150 . Due to different degree of interference at different air gap thickness, red light, green light and blue light are produced.
- the second electrode 150 In a conventional optical interference modulator, the second electrode 150 must be fabricated using a reflective material with good mechanical properties. When the second electrode 150 and the first electrode 130 are coupled to a bias voltage, the second electrode 150 may shift towards the first electrode 130 due to electrostatic attraction. Any movement of the second electrode 150 may lead to a slight variation of the air gap d 1 , d 2 and d 3 . Through a slight change in the thickness of the air gaps d 1 , d 2 , and d 3 , various optical interference modulators (pixels) within the display can be switched to an “on” or an “off” state.
- a conventional optical interference color display utilizes three different types of optical interference modulators each having a different air gap thickness to generate red, green and blue light.
- this type of color display has the following drawbacks:
- one object of the present invention is to provide an optical interference color display and optical interference modulator each having an identical air gap and a color filtering film so that multi-color or full color effect is produced without having to carry out complicated processing steps.
- the invention provides an optical interference color display.
- the optical interference color display comprises a color filtering substrate, a patterned support layer, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of optical films and a plurality of second electrodes.
- the patterned support layer and the first electrodes are positioned over the color filtering substrate with the patterned support layer between the first electrodes.
- the second electrodes is positioned over the first electrodes and supported through the patterned support layer. Therefore, an air gap with identical thickness is produce between every pair of second electrode and first electrode.
- This invention also provides an optical interference modulator.
- the optical interference modulator comprises a substrate, a color filtering film, a patterned support layer, a first electrode, an optical film and a second electrode.
- the color filtering film is positioned on the substrate.
- the first electrode and the patterned support layer are positioned on the color filtering film with the patterned support layer located outside the region occupied by the first electrode.
- the optical film is positioned over the first electrode.
- the second electrode is positioned over the first electrode and supported through the patterned support layer. An air gap is formed between the second electrode and the first electrode.
- the color filtering substrate further includes a substrate, a black matrix and a plurality of color filtering films.
- the black matrix includes a plurality of grid points and is positioned over the substrate.
- the color filtering films are positioned on the substrate inside various grid points of the black matrix.
- the color filtering films includes, for example, a red filtering film, a green filtering film and a blue filtering film.
- the substrate is a transparent substrate fabricated using a material including, for example, glass or polymer plastic.
- the first electrode is a transparent electrode fabricated using a material including, for example, indium-tin-oxide.
- the second electrode is a metallic electrode fabricated using a material including, for example, molybdenum, molybdenum alloy, chromium, aluminum or aluminum alloy.
- the optical film comprises, for example, of a plurality of alternately stacked high dielectric constant films and low dielectric constant films.
- optical interference color display and the optical interference modulator are fabricated using a single air gap and color filtering film structure so that the display panel is able to produce multi-colored or fill color effects. Moreover, the identical air gap design simplified production.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view of a conventional optical interference color display
- FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of an optical interference color display according to one preferred embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of an optical interference color display according to one preferred embodiment of this invention.
- the optical interference color display 200 mainly comprises a color filtering substrate 210 , a patterned support layer 220 , a plurality of first electrodes 230 , a plurality of optical films 240 and a plurality of second electrodes 250 .
- the color filtering substrate 210 includes a substrate 212 , a black matrix 214 and a plurality of color filtering films 216 .
- the substrate is a transparent substrate fabricated using a material including, for example, glass, polymer plastic or other transparent material.
- the black matrix 214 having a plurality of grid points is positioned over the substrate 212 .
- the color filtering films 216 are positioned on the substrate 212 inside various grid points of the black matrix 214 .
- the color filtering films 216 further includes, for example, a plurality of red filtering films 216 a , a plurality of green filtering films 216 b and a plurality of blue filtering films 216 c .
- the red filtering films 216 a , the green filtering films 216 b and the blue filtering films 216 c can be arranged in all sorts of ways inside the grid points of the black matrix 214 including, for example, Markov type, triangular type, linear type or four pixel type.
- the patterned support layer 220 is positioned on the black matrix 214 above the color filtering substrate 210 .
- the patterned support layer 220 supports the edges of the second electrodes 250 as shown in FIG. 2.
- the patterned support layer 220 can be, for example, a plurality of cylindrical supports made from resin or other chemically and physically stable material.
- the first electrodes 230 are positioned on the color filtering substrate 210 .
- the first electrodes 230 are transparent electrodes fabricated using a material including, for example, indium-tin-oxide or other conductive transparent material.
- each optical film 240 is positioned on the first electrodes 230 .
- each optical film 240 includes at least a first dielectric film 240 a and a second dielectric film 240 b alternately stacked together.
- the first dielectric film 240 a has a dielectric constant different from the second dielectric film 240 b.
- the second electrodes are positioned over their respective first electrodes 230 and supported by the patterned support layer 220 so that there is an air gap between each pair of first electrode 230 and second electrode 250 .
- the second electrodes 250 are reflective metallic electrodes fabricated using a material, for example, molybdenum, molybdenum alloy, chromium, aluminum or aluminum alloy.
- color display effect is achieved through the color filtering substrate 210 .
- the air gap thickness d 4 between the second electrode 250 and the first electrode 230 inside various optical interference modulators A are identical. Therefore, the red filtering film 216 a and the overlying optical interference modulator A is able to produce red light.
- the combination of green filtering film 216 b and the overlying optical interference modulator A produces green light and the combination of blue filtering film 216 c and the overlying optical interference modulator A produces blue light.
- the second electrode 250 inside the optical interference modulator A is made using a reflective material and has a good mechanical property, the second electrode 250 will move towards the first electrode 230 when a bias voltage is applied between the second electrode 250 and the first electrode 230 .
- Such movement changes the air gap thickness inside the optical interference modulator A.
- the on/off states of various optical interference modulators (pixels) inside the display can be set.
- this invention at least includes the following advantages:
- optical interference modulators inside the optical interference color display have the same air gap thickness, the optical interference modulators can be fabricated at the same time. Hence, some processing steps are saved and production cost is lowered.
- each optical interference modulator inside the optical interference color display has an identical air gap thickness, repetitive steps can be avoided. In other words, throughput of the production is improved.
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- This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no.91137638, filed on Dec. 27, 2002.
- 1. Field of Invention
- The present invention relates to an interference color display and an optical interference modulator. More particularly, the present invention relates to an interference color display and an optical interference modulator with a single air gap and color filtering film design.
- 2. Description of Related Art
- At present, lightweight and slim flat panel displays such as liquid crystal display (LCD), organic light-emitting device (OLED) or plasma display panel (PDP) are widely adopted in our everyday life. In particular, liquid crystal panels have become one of the mainstream displays. However, most LCD still has a number of drawbacks including narrow visual angle, moderate response time, need for a color filter for full coloration, and need for a polarizer leading to a poor optical utilization of light source and energy wastage by a back light module.
- To improve the operating efficiency of LCD, a new type of LCD called an optical interference display is developed. The optical interference panel comprises an array of optical interference modulators. Each optical interference modulator includes a transparent electrode, a reflective electrode and a support layer for supporting the reflective electrode. Through the support of the support layer, an air gap with a specified thickness is formed between the reflective electrode and the transparent electrode. Light entering from the transparent electrode of the optical interference modulator passes through the air gap and impinges upon the second electrode. Light impinging the second electrode is reflected back to emerge from the modulator through the transparent electrode. Because light passing through air gap of different thickness may result in different degree of optical interference, different colors are produced. For example, red light, green light and blue light can be produced in this way. In addition, the design of the reflective electrode inside the optical interference modulator must integrate with a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) so that the optical interference modulator can switch between an “on” or an “off” state to illuminate or darken a spot on the panel.
- The aforementioned optical interference modulators inside the optical interference display need no additional coloring filter or polarizer for producing a suitable color point and hence able to save some production cost. In addition, each optical interference modulator consumes very little electric power, quick to respond to electrical signals and operates in a bi-stable state. Therefore, the optical interference display is suitable for low power consumption products including most portable device such as mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), electronic book (e-book) and so on.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view of a conventional optical interference color display structure. As shown in FIG. 1, the optical
interference color display 100 mainly comprises atransparent substrate 110, apatterned support layer 120, a plurality offirst electrodes 130, a plurality ofoptical films 140 and a plurality ofsecond electrodes 150. In general, thetransparent substrate 110 is a glass substrate or a substrate made from a transparent material. The patternedsupport layer 120 is positioned on thetransparent substrate 110 for supporting the edges of thesecond electrodes 150. Thefirst electrodes 130 are also positioned on thetransparent substrate 110. Thefirst electrodes 130 are transparent electrodes fabricated using a material including indium-tin-oxide (ITO). Theoptical film 140 is positioned on thefirst electrodes 130. Typically, theoptical film 140 is a composite stack having a multiple of alternately positioned high dielectric constant films and low dielectric constant films. Thesecond electrodes 150 are positioned over thefirst electrodes 130. Through the support of thepatterned support layer 120, thesecond electrodes 150 are positioned over thefirst electrodes 130. Thesecond electrodes 150 are typically fabricated using a highly reflective metallic material. - In general, a conventional optical interference color panel comprises a plurality of optical interference modulators each having a different air gap thickness. As shown in FIG. 1, the air gap between the
second electrode 150 and thefirst electrode 130 is different for different optical interference modulators. To produce color light, the optical interference modulators are designed to have three different air gap separations d1, d2 and d3. The optical interference modulator with an air gap separation of d1 emits red light; the optical interference modulator with an air gap separation of d2 emits blue light; and, the optical interference modulator with an air gap separation of d3 emits green light. In other words, as light coming from outside penetrates through thetransparent substrate 110, thefirst electrodes 130 and theoptical films 140, the light needs to pass through different air gap thickness d1, d2, d3 before arriving at the respectivesecond electrodes 150. Thereafter, the light emerges from the transparent substrate 1100 after reflecting back by thesecond electrodes 150. Due to different degree of interference at different air gap thickness, red light, green light and blue light are produced. - In a conventional optical interference modulator, the
second electrode 150 must be fabricated using a reflective material with good mechanical properties. When thesecond electrode 150 and thefirst electrode 130 are coupled to a bias voltage, thesecond electrode 150 may shift towards thefirst electrode 130 due to electrostatic attraction. Any movement of thesecond electrode 150 may lead to a slight variation of the air gap d1, d2 and d3. Through a slight change in the thickness of the air gaps d1, d2, and d3, various optical interference modulators (pixels) within the display can be switched to an “on” or an “off” state. - Accordingly, a conventional optical interference color display utilizes three different types of optical interference modulators each having a different air gap thickness to generate red, green and blue light. However, this type of color display has the following drawbacks:
- 1. Optical interference modulators having a different air gap thickness must be fabricated separately and hence complicates the production process and increases the production cost.
- 2. Since optical interference modulators of different air gap thickness are fabricated separately, production time is increased leading to a lower throughput.
- 3. Separate processing also increase the possibility of having production errors and hence lower product yield.
- Accordingly, one object of the present invention is to provide an optical interference color display and optical interference modulator each having an identical air gap and a color filtering film so that multi-color or full color effect is produced without having to carry out complicated processing steps.
- To achieve these and other advantages and in accordance with the purpose of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, the invention provides an optical interference color display. The optical interference color display comprises a color filtering substrate, a patterned support layer, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of optical films and a plurality of second electrodes. The patterned support layer and the first electrodes are positioned over the color filtering substrate with the patterned support layer between the first electrodes. The second electrodes is positioned over the first electrodes and supported through the patterned support layer. Therefore, an air gap with identical thickness is produce between every pair of second electrode and first electrode.
- This invention also provides an optical interference modulator. The optical interference modulator comprises a substrate, a color filtering film, a patterned support layer, a first electrode, an optical film and a second electrode. The color filtering film is positioned on the substrate. The first electrode and the patterned support layer are positioned on the color filtering film with the patterned support layer located outside the region occupied by the first electrode. The optical film is positioned over the first electrode. The second electrode is positioned over the first electrode and supported through the patterned support layer. An air gap is formed between the second electrode and the first electrode.
- According to the embodiment of this invention, the color filtering substrate further includes a substrate, a black matrix and a plurality of color filtering films. The black matrix includes a plurality of grid points and is positioned over the substrate. The color filtering films are positioned on the substrate inside various grid points of the black matrix.
- According to the embodiment of this invention, the color filtering films includes, for example, a red filtering film, a green filtering film and a blue filtering film. The substrate is a transparent substrate fabricated using a material including, for example, glass or polymer plastic. The first electrode is a transparent electrode fabricated using a material including, for example, indium-tin-oxide. The second electrode is a metallic electrode fabricated using a material including, for example, molybdenum, molybdenum alloy, chromium, aluminum or aluminum alloy. The optical film comprises, for example, of a plurality of alternately stacked high dielectric constant films and low dielectric constant films.
- The optical interference color display and the optical interference modulator are fabricated using a single air gap and color filtering film structure so that the display panel is able to produce multi-colored or fill color effects. Moreover, the identical air gap design simplified production.
- It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.
- The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings,
- FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view of a conventional optical interference color display; and
- FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of an optical interference color display according to one preferred embodiment of this invention.
- Reference will now be made in detail to the present preferred embodiments of the invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the description to refer to the same or like parts.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of an optical interference color display according to one preferred embodiment of this invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the optical
interference color display 200 mainly comprises acolor filtering substrate 210, apatterned support layer 220, a plurality offirst electrodes 230, a plurality ofoptical films 240 and a plurality ofsecond electrodes 250. - The
color filtering substrate 210 includes asubstrate 212, ablack matrix 214 and a plurality ofcolor filtering films 216. The substrate is a transparent substrate fabricated using a material including, for example, glass, polymer plastic or other transparent material. Theblack matrix 214 having a plurality of grid points is positioned over thesubstrate 212. Thecolor filtering films 216 are positioned on thesubstrate 212 inside various grid points of theblack matrix 214. Thecolor filtering films 216 further includes, for example, a plurality ofred filtering films 216 a, a plurality ofgreen filtering films 216 b and a plurality ofblue filtering films 216 c. Thered filtering films 216 a, thegreen filtering films 216 b and theblue filtering films 216 c can be arranged in all sorts of ways inside the grid points of theblack matrix 214 including, for example, Markov type, triangular type, linear type or four pixel type. - The patterned
support layer 220 is positioned on theblack matrix 214 above thecolor filtering substrate 210. The patternedsupport layer 220 supports the edges of thesecond electrodes 250 as shown in FIG. 2. The patternedsupport layer 220 can be, for example, a plurality of cylindrical supports made from resin or other chemically and physically stable material. - The
first electrodes 230 are positioned on thecolor filtering substrate 210. Thefirst electrodes 230 are transparent electrodes fabricated using a material including, for example, indium-tin-oxide or other conductive transparent material. - The
optical films 240 are positioned on thefirst electrodes 230. Typically, eachoptical film 240 includes at least a first dielectric film 240 a and a second dielectric film 240 b alternately stacked together. The first dielectric film 240 a has a dielectric constant different from the second dielectric film 240 b. - The second electrodes are positioned over their respective
first electrodes 230 and supported by the patternedsupport layer 220 so that there is an air gap between each pair offirst electrode 230 andsecond electrode 250. In this embodiment, thesecond electrodes 250 are reflective metallic electrodes fabricated using a material, for example, molybdenum, molybdenum alloy, chromium, aluminum or aluminum alloy. - In this embodiment, color display effect is achieved through the
color filtering substrate 210. Hence, the air gap thickness d4 between thesecond electrode 250 and thefirst electrode 230 inside various optical interference modulators A are identical. Therefore, thered filtering film 216 a and the overlying optical interference modulator A is able to produce red light. Similarly, the combination ofgreen filtering film 216 b and the overlying optical interference modulator A produces green light and the combination ofblue filtering film 216 c and the overlying optical interference modulator A produces blue light. In other words, light from an external light source will penetrate thecolor filtering films 216 on thecolor filtering substrate 210, thefirst electrodes 230, theoptical films 240 and the identical air gaps (thickness d4) to reach thesecond electrodes 250. Thereafter, as light is reflected by thesecond electrodes 150 away from thecolor filtering substrate 210, red, green and blue light at a high saturated level (color purity) are emitted. - Since the
second electrode 250 inside the optical interference modulator A is made using a reflective material and has a good mechanical property, thesecond electrode 250 will move towards thefirst electrode 230 when a bias voltage is applied between thesecond electrode 250 and thefirst electrode 230. Such movement changes the air gap thickness inside the optical interference modulator A. In other words, through the variation in the air gap thickness d4, the on/off states of various optical interference modulators (pixels) inside the display can be set. - In summary, this invention at least includes the following advantages:
- 1. Since all the optical interference modulators inside the optical interference color display have the same air gap thickness, the optical interference modulators can be fabricated at the same time. Hence, some processing steps are saved and production cost is lowered.
- 2. Because each optical interference modulator inside the optical interference color display has an identical air gap thickness, repetitive steps can be avoided. In other words, throughput of the production is improved.
- 3. With a simpler fabrication, overall product yield of the optical interference color display is increased.
- 4. Because technically mature color filtering films are used, color with very high purity can be produced by the optical interference display.
- It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present invention cover modifications and variations of this invention provided they fall within the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.
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